Projects: Economic analysis

30 November 2017

Aspects of Australia's system of HFE: Submission by Jerome Fahrer and Vince Fitzgerald

Client: NSW Treasury

This submission to the Productivity Commission by Jerome Fahrer and Vince FitzGerald concerns aspects of Australia’s system of Horizontal Fiscal Equalisation (HFE), including how much equalisation should occur, how Indigenous expenditure and the Northern Territory should be treated in the HFE process and the interaction of HFE with direct Commonwealth payments to States and Territories.

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Vince’s areas of expertise include public policy, regulation and economics, including saving and superannuation, Commonwealth-state financial relations, skills training, and financial and trade practices regulation.